Professor dr. Danica Rotar Pavlič, Ph.D. med., is a specialist in family medicine and a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana and at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Primorska. In the family medicine outpatient practice in Brezovica near Ljubljana, she cares for defined patients as a selected doctor and also participates in the outpatient clinic for patients without doctor. In her work, she is mainly interested in the management of patients who belong to vulnerable groups, palliative care, management of people with chronic (cardiovascular) diseases in the practice of family medicine, problems of communication between doctor and patient, the influence of the family and social environment on commitment to treatment, and specific conditions in the third period of life - geriatrics.